Media: August 2009 Archives

Herta has produced another stellar media performance in the face of adversity over on the local FOX channel. Amy Lange and the news anchors did an excellent job of covering Herta's story and their link to dreamactivist.org is much appreciated. The link to their story on Herta is here and I will embed the video below:

Channel 7 Action News has a good report on Herta's story. There was some good media coverage of Herta's story, yesterday, and I can only hope that it's enough to swing things in our favor this last day.

Despite all of this social media activity, not a single traditional media outlet has reported on Herta's case. Fortunately, politicians don't wait on old media anymore. They listen to their constituents voices, amplified by social media. That is why I am excited to report, with the heroic assistance of Josh Bernstein from SEIU, that U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) has written a letter in support of Herta Llusho.

Lou Dobbs has been an especially deep thorn in migrant advocates' sides for a long time. Almost every weekday at 7 p.m. ET, Dobbs uses his perch on the "most trusted name in news" to blame a marginalized unauthorized migrant population for almost every one of the U.S.'s problems. Scapegoating unauthorized migrants is a common trend on FOX News, right-wing talk radio, and among conservative bloggers, but there's something especially scathing about hearing it from the "most trusted name in news."